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(No Model) DE LACY E. BALLAM.

BUTTER MOLD.

No. 585,811. Patnted July `6, 1897'.

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NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DE LACY E. BALLAM, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ELIAS B. SCIILESINGER, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

BUTTER-MOLD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,811, dated .Tuly 6, 1897.

Application iiled March 30, 1897. Serial No. 629,899. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, DE LACY E. BALLAM, of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented an Improved Butter-Mold, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an apparatus for molding butter and other plastic substances, which is of simple construction and can be easily manipulated.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of my improved butter-mold on line 1 l, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on line 2 2, Fig. l; Fig. 3, a side elevation, partly in section, taken at right angles to Fig. l; Fig. 4., a plan showing the moldplate partly withdrawn; Fig. 5, a plan of the eXpeller, and Fig. 6 a side view thereof.

The letter a' represents a foot from which projects upwardly a iixed threaded standard a. This standard engages the tapped central perforation of a bottom piece or spider Z9', secured to a vessel b by means of brackets b2 or otherwise. The vessel b is provided with laterally-projecting handles b3, by which it may be revolved, so as to be screwed up or down along standard a. Upon the conical top of standard a is supported a plate a2, which snugly fits the vessel b and which constitutes a piston-head, while the vessel h constitutes a cylinder which on being revolved will carry the piston-head with it without, however, displacing it vertically.

The butter or other substance to be molded is placed in bulk upon the head d2 and is then covered by a perforated plate c, through the openings of which the butter is driven to be shaped.

The upper portion of the vessel h is grooved at opposite sides, as at h4, to form the ways for a sliding mold-plate e, the openings of which correspond in shape and size to those of plate c. Above the mold-plate e there is guided in rabbets h5 of vessel b the frame f of a glass slide f. This slide constitutes the transparent top of mold e, through which the molding operation may be freely observed and controlled.

In use the butter is placed in bulk upon head d2, is covered by plate c, and the slides c f are inserted. The cylinder b is revolved to descend upon its support a and to thus drive the butter through the perforated plate c into the mold c. When the mold is lled, it is slid out to sever its charge from the bulk within the cylinder. The pats of butter may be finally ejected from mold e by means of an ejector g, having a number of fingers g', adapted to fit the openings of the mold-plate.

The advantages connected with niy machine are, among others, that by making the cylinder revoluble upon a iixed standard I can manipulate the compressing mechanism in a very rapid and powerful manner and without the use of any gearing. The moldplate e by being slid out of cylinder b will sever the molded pats from the bulk of the butter projecting through perforated plate c, and thus the cutter generally employed to disconnect the pats may be entirely dispensed with. Finally, the glass slide above the mold permits a full inspection and consequentlya thorough control of the machine.

What I claim is-.

1. A butter-mold composed of a fixed screwstandard, a piston-head supported thereon, a cylinder revoluble around the standard, and a mold connected to the cylinder above the piston-head, substantially as specified.

2. A butter-mold composed of a fixed screwstandard, a piston-head supported thereon, a cylinder having guideways and revolubly supported by the standard, and a sliding moldplate engaging said guideways, substantially as specified.

3. A butter-mold composed of a iiXed screwst-andard, a piston-head supported thereon, a cylinder having guideways and revolubly supported by the standard, a sliding mold-plate engaging the guideways, and a glass slide above the mold-plate, substantially as speciiied.

DE LACY BALLAM.

Vitnesses:

F. v. BRIEsEN, WILLIAM SCHULZ. 

